Orokin Vault

The Orokin Vaults, also known as Dragon Key Vaults and “The Golden Door” by the Ostrons[1], are special vaults found in the Orokin Derelict tileset on Deimos missions which require a unique void key to unlock, called a Dragon Key.

Unlocking the Vault[]

The Excalibur Prime statue over the Corrupted Artifact

Opening an Orokin Vault requires the player have one of four Dragon Keys equipped in one of their Gear slots, and only the player that opened the vault will have their key consumed. All Deimos missions, except for Defense, Assassination, and Landscape, always contain exactly one vault, with the required key to open it being randomized.

Dragon Key Blueprints are obtained through the Clan Dojo’s Orokin Lab, and are reusable. When carried in the gear, the key produces a debuff to the player’s Warframe. It is possible to equip all four keys simultaneously but all their debuffs will stack. It is generally easier to play with a full squad where each Tenno carries an individual key, as certain Warframes have stats or abilities that allow them to circumvent or even negate the penalties.

Inside these vaults appears a very large, all-white, and aged Excalibur Prime statue that resides on the far wall with hands outstretched, between which is a Corrupted Artifact. Only one person needs to interact with the Corrupted Artifact, rewarding the entire squad with a random Corrupted Mod upon extraction. However, the player who retrieved the Artifact will receive a random Dragon Key penalty until the mission is completed, which can stack with any other existing Dragon Key(s) in tow including the debuff of the same type. Furthermore, all newly spawned enemies are replaced by the Corrupted, who will attempt to stop the Tenno from leaving with the Artifact.

Corrupted Mods[]

Main article: Category:Corrupted Mods

Corrupted Mods are a class of rare mods that affect one stat beneficially (a bonus) and another one detrimentally (a penalty). Those available for Warframes are characterized by extremely high bonuses outweighed by major penalties. Those available for weapons provide bonuses of a similar strength to their standard mod analogues, while still also having a penalty. Corrupted mods can be obtained from the Orokin Derelict using special Dragon Keys to unlock Orokin Vaults located within. They are untransmutable. Visually, they do not have any special distinguishing mark and appear as any other mod of Rare rarity (i.e. gold-colored).

• Corrupted mods that provide a bonus to Critical Chance (e.g. Critical Delay) are a notable exception to the general pattern of nonstandard mods in that they cannot be stacked with their standard analogues.
• There are currently 23 Corrupted Mods and each of them has an equal chance to drop (4.3478%).

Name	Description	Polarity	Rarity
	Increases ability strength Reduces ability efficiency	Rare
	Increases ability efficiency Reduces ability duration	Rare
	Increases ability duration Reduces ability range	Rare
	Increases ability range Reduces ability strength	Rare
	Increases ability strength Reduces ability duration	Rare

Name	Description	Polarity	Rarity	Weapon Subcategory
	Increases Critical Hit Chance Reduces Fire Rate	Rare	Rifle
	Increases Damage Reduces Accuracy	Rare	Rifle
	Reduces Recoil Reduces Fire Rate	Rare	Rifle
	Increases Magazine Capacity Decreases Reload Speed	Rare	Rifle
	Increases Fire Rate Reduces Damage	Rare	Rifle
	Increases Reload Speed Reduces Magazine Capacity	Rare	Sniper
	Increases Magazine Capacity Decreases Reload Speed	Rare	Shotgun
	Increases Damage Increases Shotgun Spread	Rare	Shotgun
	Reduces Shotgun Spread Reduces Fire Rate	Rare	Shotgun
	Increases Fire Rate Reduces Damage	Rare	Shotgun
	Increases Critical Hit Chance Reduces Fire Rate	Rare	Shotgun

Name	Description	Polarity	Rarity	Weapon Subcategory
	Increases Fire Rate Reduces Damage	Rare	Any
	Increases Critical Hit Chance Reduces Fire Rate	Rare	Any
	Increases Critical Hit Damage Reduces Damage	Rare	Any
	Increases Damage Reduces Accuracy	Rare	Any
	Increases Magazine Capacity Reduces Reload Speed	Rare	Any

Name	Description	Polarity	Rarity	Weapon Subcategory
	Increases Damage Reduces Attack Speed	Rare	Any
	Increases Intial Combo Reduces Combo Duration	Rare	Any

Bugs[]

• When doing with a Syndicate Alert, opening the vault and completing the mission will not reward a corrupted mod.
• When doing with Nightmare Mode, opening the vault and completing the mission will only reward a corrupted mod, but not a mod from the nightmare pool.

References[]

1. ↑ WARFRAME: Ghouls comics

Patch History[]

Update 10.3 (2013-10-09)

• Introduced.